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Ernest Poku
Right Winger / Netherlands / Bayer 04 Leverkusen
63 OVR
Profile
Key strength: Pace and dribbling
Wide creator
In a Bayer 04 Leverkusen campaign riding the roller coaster—currently occupying 3rd place but stumbling through a patchy DLWWL run—22-year-old Dutch winger Ernest Poku has emerged as their unlikely creative constant. The €25 million-valued wide man has quietly amassed 6 goals and 9 assists across 45 appearances, contributing decisively every 181 minutes while maintaining remarkable discipline: zero cards in nearly 3,000 minutes of action. Poku subverts the modern winger prototype. With modest pace (66), he won't torch fullbacks for fun, but his football intelligence has forged a telepathic understanding with midfield conductor Aleix García. Together they unpick defenses through patient, cerebral build-up rather than explosive transition. His dribbling (66) and shooting (68) belie a player who picks his moments with surgical precision, playing two moves ahead of the chaos around him. While Leverkusen searches for consistency, Poku's reliability has become their north star. For a club with genuine title aspirations, their #19 represents both present assurance and future promise—a wide creator rewriting his position's playbook one intelligent pass at a time.